Recommended Reading

[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by ijdgaf

My favorite, favorite, favorite novel ever is Brave New World.

I know a lot of people have read it through school. But if anybody hasn't, then get it. It's tremendously well written, and it poses a question I've never quite seen elsewhere "screw distopia -- is utopia truely disirable?"

Damn, now I want to read it again.

It is excellent indeed. Been a while since I read it though.

I've a pair of recommendations - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, and Starship Troopers by RAH. I mention them together because I feel they both provide a fascinating counterpoint to each other on the subject of war. Now, it's not nearly so simple as one of them being pro- and the other anti-, but they both make you think, which is the mark in my view of a really great book. Catch 22, which I believe has already been mentioned, is also fascinating, but for different reasons.